提出双适应框架,动态缓解推荐系统中的热门偏见问题。
Graph-Structured Driven Dual Adaptation for Mitigating Popularity Bias
- 分层自适应对齐机制对抗深度网络过平滑
- 基于吉尼系数的对比加权策略实现无固定超参调节
- 在三个数据集上显著优于现有方法,适合冷启动推荐场景
热门偏见是推荐系统中的常见挑战,导致项目推荐性能失衡并加剧马太效应。由于用户-物品交互有限,不受欢迎项目仅被少数用户的嵌入邻域覆盖,引发表示崩溃并削弱模型泛化能力。现有监督对齐和重加权方法存在两大局限:(1) 忽视不同图卷积网络(GCN)层间的固有差异,深层可能产生负收益;(2) 依赖固定超参数平衡热门与不热门项目,难以适配多样数据分布且增加模型复杂度。为此,我们提出图结构驱动的双适应框架(GSDA),理论分析表明,GCN中的监督对齐受过平滑效应阻碍,随着层数加深,热门与不热门项目间差异减弱,降低了对齐有效性。GSDA引入分层自适应对齐机制以对抗层间熵衰减,并结合基于吉尼系数的分布感知对比加权策略,使模型能动态调节去偏强度而无需固定超参数。在三个基准数据集上的大量实验表明,GSDA有效缓解热门偏见,同时持续优于当前最优方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Popularity bias is a common challenge in recommender systems. It often causes unbalanced item recommendation performance and intensifies the Matthew effect. Due to limited user-item interactions, unpopular items are frequently constrained to the embedding neighborhoods of only a few users, leading to representation collapse and weakening the model's generalization. Although existing supervised alignment and reweighting methods can help mitigate this problem, they still face two major limitations: (1) they overlook the inherent variability among different Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) layers, which can result in negative gains in deeper layers; (2) they rely heavily on fixed hyperparameters to balance popular and unpopular items, limiting adaptability to diverse data distributions and increasing model complexity. To address these challenges, we propose Graph-Structured Dual Adaptation Framework (GSDA), a dual adaptive framework for mitigating popularity bias in recommendation. Our theoretical analysis shows that supervised alignment in GCNs is hindered by the over-smoothing effect, where the distinction between popular and unpopular items diminishes as layers deepen, reducing the effectiveness of alignment at deeper levels. To overcome this limitation, GSDA integrates a hierarchical adaptive alignment mechanism that counteracts entropy decay across layers together with a distribution-aware contrastive weighting strategy based on the Gini coefficient, enabling the model to adapt its debiasing strength dynamically without relying on fixed hyperparameters. Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets demonstrate that GSDA effectively alleviates popularity bias while consistently outperforming state-of-the-art methods in recommendation performance.
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